The first hospice was built thanks to the late editor-in chief of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, Endell Laird, who launched a reader appeal which raised £4million.

[1] CHAS offers children’s hospice services, free of charge, to every child, young person and their families who needs and wants them.

[3] The care provided is multi-disciplinary, including from doctors, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, play specialists and others.

On 16 December 1994 celebrity supporter Phillip Schofield cut the first turf for Rachel House, assisted by children from Kinross Primary School.

A fundraising appeal to build Scotland’s second hospice Robin House in Balloch near Loch Lomond began in 2001 with readers of the Sunday Post helping raise the £10 million needed to complete the project.

In May 2003, the work began on the building with celebrity supporters Ewan McGregor and Sharleen Spiteri cutting the first turf with six-year-old Robyn Watterson who at the time used Rachel House.

The first evaluated future research priorities for CHAS[13] and the second identified the existing home care service.

[14] In 2008, the Scottish Government published the report Living and dying well: a national action plan for palliative and end of life care in Scotland.

[18][19] In 2015, research was commissioned from the University of York to calculate the prevalence of children with life-shortening conditions in Scotland.

This was the first single-nation study of such prevalence in the world and was published in a report called ChiSP (Children in Scotland Requiring Palliative Care).